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For me, Calvino and Borges are marked by two qualities which Rushdie embarrassingly lacks: impersonality (Rushdie's convoluted narcissistic tangles are self-regarding and ostentatiously egotistical [Salman doesn't want us to forget, even for a moment, that is HIM writing) and a certain economy...

This confirms that the novel Simon was talking about, Pavane , was by someone called Keith Roberts....

I'll be going... before moving on to Slimelight to see Powernoisers Izoloscope (bumps up thread, again)

This is the copper-bottomed exemplar of the Big Other effect though.... who DOESN'T know that models use cocaine? Not the models themselves, obv, but not the general public either.. No, it is only the Big Other who doesn't know, and it is for the Big O that the press stage their revelations, and...

Yeh, quite, the whole thing is frankly sickening... justice by tabloid... I've got a tip for Ian Bliar... call me a snitch but if Ian the boys were to raid any of the restrooms of the big financial corps in the city he might just find people using cocaine... what do you think? It's a witch...

O and Francesco - Space 1999, yes, I watched it... but it wasn't something that stuck with me... Not the kind of SF that ever got under my skin... too space operatic... but I recall liking the woman who could transform into animals, the rest of it forgotten I'm afraid...

Women quite shockingly under-represented here (Le Guin the only woman mentioned thus far I think). About time that Octavia Butler got a mention: her Xenogenesis trilogy is rightly celebreated but my favourite is the lesser known Clay's Ark (I don't think there's a better book for viscerally...

I couldn't even bother to start it so maybe I shouldn't comment. But feathers ... It just didn't appeal.... I managed a few more, but what a steaming heap of shit... Rushdie is an abysmal writer, a charlatan, a Pomonaut extraordinaire, painfully self-conscious and self-regarding... unreadable...

Compare it to ILM ... well, precisely... a billion threads, impossible to find again once you've been on them, full of one-liners... exactly what should be avoided here I should have thought and what many of us came here specifically to avoid.. Lower than average compared to what? Rubbish music...

Even if this were a democracy, the numbers of people who voted on the Grime spam thread were minuscule and were naturally biased towards Grimestas (many folk, like myself, presumably ignoring most threads with the word 'grime' in them as a matter of course). I simply reiterate that I ignore the...

Surely that should be SF not Sci-Fi? (An ugly ugly neologism if ever there was one) Cornelius is brilliant but become the series becomes increasingly dense and difficult ... more accessible and satisfying are the Oswald Bastable novels, which I once described as SteamProg... brilliantly drawn...

Yes, I am a convert to cricket too. I've managed to attune to the 'tension plane' of the game, so that was once seemed tedious is now pure suspense. It helps that the teams played so aggressively and were so well-matched, although it has to be said that the drama was contributed to by that...

Yeh, this is very well-put... You'll get no arguments from me about 'If I Was Your Girlfriend', which is creepy in every good way, you're right ... Prince's best moment for me ... 'Strange Relationship' is similarly twisted... but, really, does anyone listen to most of the other tracks on the...

That's better

And this one's just to get rid of the street fighting man....

In fact, of course, and as I've argued previously, exactly the opposite is the case. It is the white soulboy contingent who have different, lower, standards for black performers than they would ever dream of employing in relation to whites. 'White' genres that are relentlessly cartoonish...

There are about four or five good tracks on it, the rest of it, like most of Prince's output, is fluff.... After this, of course, there is nothing.. well transgression is over-rated, but just for the sake of argument: in what ways was it transgressive? Because it deals with sex? Hardly...

Fair point .... but if you ask me, the Talk Talk, Kate Bush, Phuture, Mr Fingers and Eric B are the quality here ... Psychocandy, Sign O' The Times and Head on the Door are of their time in a bad way ... (I know it's heretical but I've never been fully persuaded of the merits of Prince, and his...

Ah! That explains it... Session playing on other folk's albums is stretching it surely...

good question... who is he? :) But as for Brian Eno ... yes have to go with consensus here, the massive black mark of his U2-involvement notwithstanding, Eno's role in Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure, his own solo albums, Low, No New York, the first Ultravox LP, AND, as Simon says, as a...